Company details

London, UK

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Energy & Climate

WEBSITE

https://www.nscale.com

About the company

Nscale is a GPU cloud provider positioning the company as an “AI-native hyperscaler” built for training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads. Nscale sells access to GPU infrastructure and a software stack that includes orchestration options like Kubernetes and Slurm. Public reporting links Nscale’s growth to large-scale data centre buildouts and major supply agreements for AI infrastructure. Nscale was founded in 2024 and is privately held.

Locations and presence

Nscale is UK-headquartered, with hiring spanning London, remote UK, and multiple EMEA locations including Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Brussels, plus some US-based roles. Several job postings describe the company as “remote-first,” while other roles are explicitly tied to London or specific sites.

Palpable Score

38.5

/ 100

Nscale has visible hiring momentum, but public evidence of true entry-level access is thin because most open roles ask for multiple years of experience and there are no clearly advertised graduate or internship tracks. The hiring process and early-career support also lack the kind of concrete detail that helps first-time candidates predict what will happen and how the company will develop them once hired.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

6.5

/ 20

The company’s current public job board is heavily weighted toward experienced hiring, with roles commonly requiring 2–5 years, 3+ years, or 5+ years of prior experience.

Nscale’s careers hub points candidates to “Open Positions,” but the careers page itself does not describe any internship, graduate, or apprenticeship pipeline.

The company does list a small number of roles that could be nearer to early-career compared with the rest of the slate, such as an Infrastructure Support Engineer with emphasis on learning platform fundamentals and using established runbooks, but the overall mix still skews mid-to-senior.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

9.5

/ 20

The company uses a structured ATS (Greenhouse) with consistent job templates that include role purpose, responsibilities, and “Skills / Experience” requirements, which helps candidates self-screen.

Nscale’s postings include an Equal Opportunities statement and an explicit invitation to request accommodations, and at least one posting states the company is currently unable to sponsor visas in the UK.

The company has limited public, official detail on interview stages and timelines, and a candidate-reported interview flow describes three stages plus a design task where the suggested time box felt unrealistic.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

7.5

/ 20

The company describes a “clear progression plan” and compensation reviews every 12 months in at least one role, but does not publish a concrete onboarding or mentorship structure for new joiners.

Nscale’s job descriptions emphasise “ownership and accountability” and on-call participation for some infrastructure roles, which can be high-growth learning, but the company does not spell out how early-tenure engineers are supported through that ramp.

The company’s public careers materials include values language, but there is no program-level detail on training budgets, buddy systems, manager coaching expectations, or structured early-career development.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

8.5

/ 20

The company advertises compensation as “competitive” with “base + equity,” but current postings do not show pay ranges, making it hard for early-career candidates to benchmark offers.

Nscale signals some pay stability through language like annual compensation reviews and permanent roles (for example, the Document Controller role is explicitly described as permanent).

The company’s postings do not consistently lay out benefits (healthcare, retirement, parental leave, relocation), which limits transparency on total compensation for candidates comparing early-career offers.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

6.5

/ 20

The company is newly founded (2024), and Nscale does not publish early-career outcomes like intern conversion rates, retention, time-to-promotion, or typical progression paths.

Nscale has very limited public employee-review volume, which makes it hard to read consistent patterns about manager quality, learning, and progression from sentiment data.

The company is expanding quickly in hiring volume and data-centre ambition, but public sources do not yet provide verifiable evidence that early-career hires are being promoted, retained, and supported at scale.

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Useful links & resources

Nscale Careers Nscale jobs (Greenhouse job board)Nscale interview experiences (Glassdoor)